On Aug 2, 2:44 pm, " .=B7:*=A8=A8*:=B7.=B7:*=A8=A8*:=B7. UNCLE WALLY, YO=
UR FRIENDLY
NEIGHBORHOOD DOOMSDAY PROPHET & MOST EXCELLENT PARTY DUDE
EXTRAORDINAIRE=99 .=B7:*=A8=A8*:=B7. " <sgdecember2...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
Bridge collapses, airplane crashes, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods,
sickening wars in the Middle East instigated by Israel, & soon to come
rising sea levels & massive coastal inundations !
No matter how U slice it, Bonzo, this world iz basically FRICKED
beyond all repair.
yes siree yes indeedy deedy deedily do !
HOOROO
UNCLE WALLY
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On Aug 2, 12:39 pm, "Bonzo" <boo...@optusnt.com.au> wrote:
And what about Carl Sagan? ... hee, hee, hee ...
By some startling coincidence, politically active scientists often prod=
uce
computer models that generate results amazingly concurrent with the sci=
entists'
political agenda. Dr. Carl Sagan did it. In the early 80s, Sagan (who w=
as deeply
involved in the peace movement) produced the (Turco-Toon-Ackerman-Polla=
ck-Sagan
(TTAPS) model that predicted a nuclear war would raise enough dust to b=
lot out
the sun and bring on a "nuclear winter". Nuclear Winter! Wow! The media=
ran with
it, and you still hear the phrase used today. However, the media someho=
w failed
to report on critics of the TTAPS model, of which there were many.
For example, Russell Seitz, Harvard Center for International Affairs, v=
iewed the
TTAPS model as worthless, revealing that, to achieve the results Sagan =
wanted,
TTAPS had ignored factors such as the effects of day and night, clouds,=
rain,
the continents, and the oceans. And George Rathjens of MIT dismissed TT=
APS as,
"... the worst example of the misrepresentation of science in my memory=
.."
Later, when the Soviet Union collapsed, looking for a new home, Sagan -=
as did
many others of his ilk - threw in with the eco-gang, where, during Dese=
rt Storm,
he raced from TV network to network, predicting that smoke from the oil=
well
fires would alter the climate enough to cause famine in India. Gee! I w=
onder how
that prophesy panned out.
Besides Sagan, we have other eco-quack scientists, fellows like the oft=
-quoted
Dr. Steven Schneider, who has thumped the doomsday drum for decades, an=
d who has
this novel approach to scientific integrity:
"... scientists should consider stretching the truth to get some broa=
d-based
support, to capture the public's imagination. That, of course, entails =
getting
loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make
simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts =
we might
have. ... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between be=
ing
effective and being honest."
Or one might cite Dr. Paul Ehrlich, the Grand Old Man of Eco-quackery, =
for forty
years a most prominent doomsday campaigner, who has battled ferociously=
to
promote global warming, making an alarming case for the immanent incine=
ration of
planet Earth. However, since the early Sixties, with equal conviction, =
Ehrlich
has also prophesied:
1.. The start of World War III on October 13, 1979.
2.. A new ice age. (More on the "ice age", later.)
3.. Massive starvation in India by the early 70s.
4.. Massive worldwide starvation by the 80s.
5.. Massive shortages of fuel and industrial raw materials by the 90s.
6.. The reduction of the population of the United States to 22.5 mill=
ion by
1999 because of famine and global warming.
Which prompts one to request from his disciples: please point out the d=
ifference
between your Dr. Ehrlich and The Man From Planet Crackpot.
--
Regards
Bonzo
"I personally cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process =
that I
view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scienti=
fically
unsound". Hurricane Expert Chris Landsea ( He resigned from the IPCC in=
2005)- Hide quoted text -
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Why don't both you Chimps take your drivel out of aus.tv ??
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